Message-Id: <199609202242.RAA02588@inet.htcnet.com>
From: "Carl Morris" <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
To: "WWW HTML List" <www-html@w3.org>
Subject: breaking with nonspace characters
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:39:22 -0500
Is there any standard or proposed methods to break words apart between
characters as if a space had been there only when needed ) (ie:
suggest) and to suggest that a word could be broken with a hyphen?
Exmaples:
#1: This is an excert from a document:
information about ONEFOSsil.=A0 The address of this page is:
http://home.aol.com/kiwi7416.=A0 We also have our own WEB page at
http://199.120.83.179/msftrncs/ and at
http://www.htcnet.com/~msftrncs/msftrncs/index.html.=A0 You may also get
to the ONEFOSsil page directly with
http://199.120.83.179/msftrncs/products/onefossil/index.html and with
http://www.htcnet.com/~msftrncs/msftrncs/products/onefossil/index.html
I think you will find this looks pretty bad... so I would like to
suggest the browser to break like this (at aprox 60 columns):
information about ONEFOSsil.=A0 The address of this page is:
http://home.aol.com/kiwi7416.=A0 We also have our own WEB page
at http://199.120.83.179/msftrncs/ and at http://www.htcnet.com
/~msftrncs/msftrncs/index.html.=A0 You may also get to the
ONEFOSsil page directly with http://199.120.83.179/msftrncs/
products/onefossil/index.html and with http://www.htcnet.com/
~msftrncs/msftrncs/products/onefossil/index.html
This look more pleasing? Actually I think browsers could find a rule
to use here, and do it themselves... what do you think?
The other example... spell out the word used in "marry poppens" (sure,
its in the dictionary even I think...), thats pretty long winded...
lets say it won't fit in a single line on the browser... how can the
browser be suggested of the proper points to break it, and place a
hyphen there when it does?
no, I am not even going to try to write that word out here.. but we had
to know how to spell it in the 4th or 5th grade... (it starts
"super"...)
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